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From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: free lisp compilers?
Date: 1999/09/03
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* Friedrich Dominicus
| This is an opinion and not a fact I guess.
not just opinion, but the evidence is anecdotal, not fundamental. the
reason it doesn't sound unreasonable to me, and in fact sounds reasonable
is that when you need, say, 5 times as many programmers to handle the
amount of work necessary, you get interaction costs and team overhead
that slows everybody down to a quarter of their top speed alone. but you
can hardly _do_ C++ work alone, except for fairly small things, like
three to six months. if you were to spend 15 to 30 months like that,
you'd have really a hard time. a Common Lisp programmer can get the
system working in a short time, learn a lot from and develop the software
with its users when it's still quite malleable. that's too hard to do in
C++, so you also spend more time designing the system before-hand. all
of this means more time and the demand to get it coded and deployed means
more programmers, which means more team interaction overhead. all of
this really adds up.
| And maybe you underestimate the C++ programmers.
(1) you can't underestimate C++ programmers. (the snotty version ;)
(2) no, but you can't hire top-notch C++ programmers for projects like
this. top-notch C++ programmers generally develop fundamental stuff like
libraries and interface tools, not applications.
#:Erik
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